On Friday, March 14, 2014 6:23:13 PM UTC-4, Liz R wrote: > > I'm not sure I'm convinced by the video. Why can't the brain think it's > "about something" ? >
Because it doesn't need to. A coffee filter has an effect of coffee, but that doesn't mean that the filter intends to 'make coffee' or is about making coffee. Craig > (Also the Chinese Room has an amazingly small manual, if I was Chinese I > think I'd be a bit offended...) > > B -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

